New From Colbert: Trump Labels the Trade War a ‘Little Squabble’
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Today’s Donald Trump vocabulary word of the day: squabble.
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#Trump ordered Braille not be placed near elevators in Trump Tower, in violation of the law. “No blind people,” Trump declared, “are going to live in this building.” pic.twitter.com/ht5PGQarDJ
— David Beard (@dabeard) May 14, 2019
— David Beard (@dabeard) May 14, 2019
That last one feels like it’s way too specific in talking about Trump. That applies to the entirety of the GOP. The equivocating about folks and ‘economic anxiety’ when it was clear that if it wasn’t active racial animus, then at the least passive tolerance of racial animus from their fellow voters that gave Trump and the GOP the position of nigh unlimited power to remold the country for the next two gens with precious minimal hope of stopping them much less undoing the damage.
The ACLU of Alabama, along with the National @ACLU and @PPFA, will file a lawsuit to stop this unconstitutional ban and protect every woman’s right to make her own choice about her healthcare, her body, and her future. #alpolitics
— ACLU of Alabama (@ACLUAlabama) May 15, 2019
oh, the hate directed at biden in some progressive blogs!
truly the circular firing squad is well underway
re: #2 gocart mozart
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The sad truth is that these assholes in Alabama who claim to be “pro-life” don’t give a damn about a baby once it’s born. And they will turn their backs on needy neglected kids all the while flaunting their “deep Xtian faith”!
But her dragons…
— AproposOfSomething (@AOSradio) May 14, 2019
re: #3 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
oh, the hate directed at biden in some progressive blogs!
truly the circular firing squad is well underway
I glanced at the latest Daily Kos straw poll showing a virtual tie between Warren and Sanders. The Berniebots are even more caustic now than they were in 2016.
re: #6 Joe Bacon 🌹
I glanced at the latest Daily Kos straw poll showing a virtual tie between Warren and Sanders. The Berniebots are even more caustic now than they were in 2016.
on the blog i always hang out on, it’s liz, maybe kamala in a pinch, but fuck bernie, fucking fuck biden, the rest of them can get lost, cuz it’s liz, liz, liz all the way, the one and only
re: #7 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
on the blog i always hang out on, it’s liz, maybe kamala in a pinch, but fuck bernie, fucking fuck biden, the rest of them can get lost, cuz it’s liz, liz, liz all the way, the one and only
Who’s on the blog? Liz doesn’t surprise me for leftists but tolerating Kamala and disapproving of Bernie does.
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
Who’s on the blog? Liz doesn’t surprise me for leftists but tolerating Kamala and disapproving of Bernie does.
lawyers, academics, economists, programmers - not so different a crowd as from here
i was surprised at bernie’s precipitous fall, since he was so popular there four years ago, but it was explained patiently to me that he is an Old White Man whose Time Has Come and Gone
personally i think they all have plusses and minuses and i’ll support anybody who is demonstrably not a (spit) republican
re: #4 Joe Bacon 🌹
The sad truth is that these assholes in Alabama who claim to be “pro-life” don’t give a damn about a baby once it’s born. And they will turn their backs on needy neglected kids all the while flaunting their “deep Xtian faith”!
This is an older blog post, from a Christian on how she became disillusioned about the so-called pro-life movement. It took her several years, but she learned what it’s really about.
At one point she was the leader of her college’s pro-life group. Her voyage away from the pro-life movement and Christianity’s lies promoting it started with an article about abortion rates in various countries in the New York Times back in 2007.
Lying for Jesus is what led her out of Christianity.
It’s somewhat a long read, but worth it. She brings knowledge to the issue of what all the anti-safe abortion lobbying is really all about, as she was inside it.
How I Lost Faith in the Pro-Life Moveement (Goes to Love, Joy, Feminism at Patheos)
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
Who’s on the blog? Liz doesn’t surprise me for leftists but tolerating Kamala and disapproving of Bernie does.
re: #10 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
lawyers, academics, economists, programmers - not so different a crowd as from here. (rest cut)
I’m the outlier here at Mr. Johnson’s Institute for the Sane then.
re: #10 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
lawyers, academics, economists, programmers - not so different a crowd as from here
i was surprised at bernie’s precipitous fall, since he was so popular there four years ago, but it was explained patiently to me that he is an Old White Man whose Time Has Come and Gone
personally i think they all have plusses and minuses and i’ll support anybody who is demonstrably not a (spit) republican
Personally I am delighted by Bernie’s fall from grace. The Bernie fanatics that I know are not people whose judgement I trust. I will certainly support anyone who gets the Democratic nomination against Trump (and Pence); of course if (ha ha!) William Weld got the Republican nomination, I might prefer him to some Democrats.
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
I can never forgive the Xtians who blasted my sister for having a late term abortion because the fetus died. They laid the guilt on her so thick that she became a radical forced birther. Even her kids got in the clinic picketing shit.
re: #13 Anymouse 🌹
I’m the outlier here at Mr. Johnson’s Institute for the Sane then.
You’re not an outlier here — the only qualification for membership is recognition that the contemporary Republican Party is evil incarnate. And like the rest of us, you dabble in law, economics, etc. One doesn’t need a degree to have thoughtful opinions and in-depth knowledge on a range of issues.
re: #16 Joe Bacon 🌹
I can never forgive the Xtians who blasted my sister for having a late term abortion because the fetus died. They laid the guilt on her so thick that she became a radical forced birther. Even her kids got in the clinic picketing shit.
That is so sad. What a terrible experience for her! Did she have any therapy to deal with her loss?
re: #16 Joe Bacon 🌹
I can never forgive the Xtians who blasted my sister for having a late term abortion because the fetus died. They laid the guilt on her so thick that she became a radical forced birther. Even her kids got in the clinic picketing shit.
I had a roommate when I lived in Missouri who’s foetus died in the eighth month. Her father (a preacher but not a fundamentalist) did the same thing to her; on top of that, the state of Missouri interfered with her ability to seek an abortion.
She was forced to give vaginal birth in an induced labour after she came down with sepsis.
She is now estranged from her family and no longer religious.
Very few religious groups (not just Christian groups) have a position which states there should be no restriction on a woman’s right to an abortion.
Most support outright bans or extreme limits. This is not just an Evangelical or Catholic thing.
They note that Islam, Buddhism, and Orthodox Judaism do not have a fixed position (primarily because they do not have a fixed body which hands down rules to all congregations).
There’s a fuckin camel and a zebra in there 😄😄😄
— Dr.failure (@vishesche) May 14, 2019
My mom probably has a piano in there
— Dr.failure (@vishesche) May 14, 2019
In the zebra which is in the camel
— Dr.failure (@vishesche) May 14, 2019
Interesting how Republican presidents are supposed to be kings, while Democratic ones “aren’t above the law” and indeed are supposed to be rubber-stamps for Congress, innit?
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 15, 2019
From the bottom of the last thread:
re: #108 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
or the Maine incident that the Hearst newspapers used to whip up support for the Spanish-American War.
Except that very few historians see Maine as a true false-flag op. It was 85% likely to have been negligence (in the design more than in the way the ship was being treated), and 14% possible to be the Spanish actually attacking her. US Navy sabotage is highly unlikely.
In the Straits, there was no question that someone attacked, and it’s over 95% likely to be someone theoretically-allied to the countries whose flags those ships fly rather than Iran.
re: #22 Chrysicat
Interesting how Republican presidents are supposed to be kings, while Democratic ones “aren’t above the law” and indeed are supposed to be rubber-stamps for Congress, innit?
To be somewhat fair, conservatives are basically monarchists when all is said and done. They view social hierarchy as the “natural order of things”.
re: #3 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
oh, the hate directed at biden in some progressive blogs!
truly the circular firing squad is well underway
again, who is posting in these blogs?
why do we still equate an Internet presence with a real human being?
re: #24 Dr Lizardo
To be somewhat fair, conservatives are basically monarchists when all is said and done. They view social hierarchy as the “natural order of things”.
the DIVINE order of things, thanks to Calvin
The MegaMillions draw was delayed:
Mega Millions drawing delayed by technical difficulties for 05/14/19
While the drawing did eventually happen, the winners if any have yet to be posted.
BTW, this draw had another triple (66 67 68) which in the past few years had occurred several times between PowerBall and MegaMillions. Combinatorics tells us it should be incredibly rare, but here we are, with these things happening.
re: #23 Chrysicat
From the bottom of the last thread:
Except that very few historians see Maine as a true false-flag op. It was 85% likely to have been negligence (in the design more than in the way the ship was being treated), and 14% possible to be the Spanish actually attacking her. US Navy sabotage is highly unlikely.
In the Straits, there was no question that someone attacked, and it’s over 95% likely to be someone theoretically-allied to the countries whose flags those ships fly rather than Iran.
If the issue here was Iranians are attacking oil tankers!!2!!1!uno!!, the solution would be that employed by Ronald Reagan’s administration when they were actually doing that during the Tanker War: reregister vessels under the US Flag.
At that point, the US Navy can sail in protection of those vessels as a specific mission (the Navy does not protect foreign convoys in a war we are not part of).
re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
the DIVINE order of things, thanks to Calvin
Ah, yes…..Calvinism.
[insert Warhammer40K “heresy” pic here]
More presidential candidates should have mustaches pic.twitter.com/xD9kFxFW7O
— the mustache thread guy (@dagotron) May 11, 2019
re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter
You’re not an outlier here — the only qualification for membership is recognition that the contemporary Republican Party is evil incarnate. And like the rest of us, you dabble in law, economics, etc. One doesn’t need a degree to have thoughtful opinions and in-depth knowledge on a range of issues.
I always thought the word “dabble” is strange in the way a lot of people feel about “moist.”
I don’t believe the Republican Party is evil per se, as evil is a religious construct. I do believe they care about power more than anything else, and that they will toss democracy before they will give up power.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹
Very few religious groups (not just Christian groups) have a position which states there should be no restriction on a woman’s right to an abortion.
Most support outright bans or extreme limits. This is not just an Evangelical or Catholic thing.
They note that Islam, Buddhism, and Orthodox Judaism do not have a fixed position (primarily because they do not have a fixed body which hands down rules to all congregations).
Note also that the United Methodists were in the early throes of a schism that’s going to lead to a church just as conservative as the Southern Baptists that probably gets to keep the UMC name, and another that will include most of the urban and many suburban churches outside the Deep South, that is “open and affirming” to LGBT and will likely also move left on abortion rights from where the UMC was in that article, though.
The second-largest Christian church organisation in the USA, the Southern Baptist Convention, has come out with an ethics statement opposing artificial intelligence on ethical grounds. Apparently they also find in the Bible where God opposes AI.
Utah Outcasts speculates that the real issue here is preachers could be made obsolete by robot preachers a la “Futurama.”
They read from the document, which in conservative fashion contains misspelt words and bad grammar.
(video, 16:31)
re: #32 Chrysicat
Note also that the United Methodists were in the early throes of a schism that’s going to lead to a church just as conservative as the Southern Baptists that probably gets to keep the UMC name, and another that will include most of the urban and many suburban churches outside the Deep South, that is “open and affirming” to LGBT and will likely also move left on abortion rights from where the UMC was in that article, though.
But they will all insist they have the “correct” interpretation of the Bible.
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹
But they will all insist they have the “correct” interpretation of the Bible.
I thank God for giving our Founding Fathers the divine foresight to separate Church from State and to keep theological arguments from becoming political disputes.
re: #32 Chrysicat
Yup; both Jeff Sessions and Hillary Clinton are members of the United Methodist Church.
(So are all the members of my family who disowned me over my religious position and my sister over her sexual orientation. They are in Michigan though, not Dixie. The apparent schism in the UMC will tear the whole church apart, not just Dixie churches.)
re: #34 Anymouse 🌹
The second-largest Christian church organisation in the USA, the Southern Baptist Convention, has come out with an ethics statement opposing artificial intelligence on ethical grounds. Apparently they also find in the Bible where God opposes AI.
Recall the major premise of the novel Dune, in which all AI, artificial insemination and any other technology which could replace humans has been outlawed following the Butlerian Jihad.
Long live the Mu’ad Dib!!!
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I thank God for giving our Founding Fathers the divine foresight to separate Church from State and to keep theological arguments from becoming political disputes.
Well, I don’t know if it was divine insight or the Enlightenment. A whole slew of the Founders were at best Deists.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I don’t know if it was divine insight or the Enlightenment. A whole slew of the Founders were at best Deists.
I call it Divine Enlightenment
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
Personally I am delighted by Bernie’s fall from grace. The Bernie fanatics that I know are not people whose judgement I trust. I will certainly support anyone who gets the Democratic nomination against Trump (and Pence); of course if (ha ha!) William Weld got the Republican nomination, I might prefer him to some Democrats.
Here come old white top
He come, shufflin up slowly
He got, wagging finger
He slurp, Ben and Jerrys
He say, I want you, to love me
One thing I keep saying it all has to be free…
Come together, right now, worship me— Nicole Lalonde - Kamala 2020 🤜🏼🤛🏼 (@nmllalonde) August 9, 2018
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹
Yup; both Jeff Sessions and Hillary Clinton are members of the United Methodist Church.
(So are all the members of my family who disowned me over my religious position and my sister over her sexual orientation. They are in Michigan though, not Dixie. The apparent schism in the UMC will tear the whole church apart, not just Dixie churches.)
Jimmy Carter and Mike Huckabee are both Southern Baptist. Their bibles are the same translation, the same edition, of the same selected chapters/books (other denominations may have different selections). They’ve probably prayed at the same specific churches on occasion, attended the same sermons given by the same preachers. And both will insist that their every policy position, every opinion on every moral question, is based on their understanding of what they read in those same Bibles.
But I’d be really hard-pressed to think of any remotely controversial question on which they’d vote the same way.
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I don’t know if it was divine insight or the Enlightenment. A whole slew of the Founders were at best Deists.
It was pragmatism, based on a knowledge of history.
The 30 Years War, the 100 Years War, 2 English Civil Wars, the treatment by Crusaders of various Christian sects on their way south… there’s not a single square inch of Europe that isn’t soaked in the blood of self-identified Christians from battle with other denominations of self-identified Christians.
The 30 Years War all by itself, in the geographic range it took place, killed 15% of the population. That’s how many Soviets died from WWII.
The 13 colonies had 13 different Official religions, many of which would be eager to take up arms against each other. Separation of church and state was the only way to give the new nation a chance to make it more than 1 generation.
re: #43 sagehen
Pretty much. The whole period is blood-soaked in the name of religion. The only US colony which did not have an official religion was Rhode Island (the colony was specifically founded as a haven for Baptists, Quakers, and others escaping persecution from Massachusetts Congregationalists).
Protestant Christianity was the unofficial state religion of the USA, Catholicism was more or less tolerated.
But ever since we started to enforce the Separation of Church and State, the poor persecuted Christians have been screaming like a pig on a spit.
re: #45 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Protestant Christianity was the unofficial state religion of the USA, Catholicism was more or less tolerated.
But ever since we started to enforce the Separation of Church and State, the poor persecuted Christians have been screaming like a pig on a spit.
When Florida became a part of the USA, the Federal government sent Protestant ministers on the government dime to convert Catholics. Many Catholic Church properties were seized by the government to use as things such as Army barracks.
For the latter part of the XIX Century, the Republican Party was the anti-Catholic party. The only reason that Catholics are about equally split between the parties now is Paul Weyrich’s move to put the GOP on the anti-abortion train of Catholicism.
nothing should EVER be so bad that u gotta use ramen noodles to fix ya sink 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/KCdeLymkAL
— ethan is seeing twice ➐ (@roachmilky) May 15, 2019
Video report from Deutsche Welle about SoS Mike Pompeo’s recent jaunt.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on a mission to rally support for Washington’s Iran policy. So far his mission hasn’t gone quite the way he’d like. Though Pompeo has been on the road for the past week, neither the EU nor Russia is backing the US strategy towards Iran.
re: #49 Dave In Austin
nothing should EVER be so bad that u gotta use ramen noodles to fix ya sink/blockquote>
Back when I was a poor student getting by on a TA salary of $300 per month, you could get seven packets of ramen for a buck, eight when they were on sale. So that project basically uses up a week’s worth of dinners…
Seems like a bit of a shame, really: Why Doris Day will have ‘no funeral or memorial service’ - or even a grave marker
Day, who died of pneumonia Monday at age 97, “didn’t like death,” her manager and close friend Bob Bashara told the magazine.
“She couldn’t be with her animals if they had to be put down. She had difficulty accepting death,” he added.
We all do.
She had four husbands and one child, who already passed away, so there are no descendants to mourn her.
For being an “all American girl”, in real life she never really fit the stereotypical mold.
This is so common - people create conceptions of movie stars based on movies, and the conceptions are often far from reality.
Doris Day basically lived the last third of her life often in obscurity, only coming out for very special occasions. With her success, wild success, in her early years she could have lingered on as a public celebrity right up to her death, but she chose not to.
So I think she is totally foreign to anyone under 40 years old or so. They’ve heard her sing no doubt because her songs have ended up in many movies even in recent years, but her last “actress” credit is dated way back to 1973.
I still enjoy The Man Who Knew Too Much and even if it is not Hitchcock’s best movie, Day’s singing is one of the gems of the movie.
re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I guess she did have one grandson, who is probably alive.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid.
Another passing of note - Stanton Friedman, who was quite famous in UFOlogy, has died at the age of 84.
Stanton Friedman, the famed UFO researcher based in Fredericton, has died.
Friedman was returning from a speaking engagement in Columbus, Ohio, when he died suddenly at the Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday night, according to his family.
He was 84.
A nuclear physicist by training, Friedman had devoted his life to researching and investigating UFOs since the late 1960s.
He was credited with bringing the 1947 Roswell Incident — the famous incident that gave rise to theories about UFOs and a U.S. military coverup — back into the mainstream conversation.
re: #56 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Did he die or was his soul abducted by aliens?
I’m not saying it was, but…
Nah. He just went home.
re: #10 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
lawyers, academics, economists, programmers - not so different a crowd as from here
i was surprised at bernie’s precipitous fall, since he was so popular there four years ago, but it was explained patiently to me that he is an Old White Man whose Time Has Come and Gone
personally i think they all have plusses and minuses and i’ll support anybody who is demonstrably not a (spit) republican
I’m an Old White Man whose Time Has Come and Gone. Guess I’m condemned to work, donate, and vote for the Old White Men whose Time Has Come and Gone Party.
This divisive shit is going to kill the country, if not the planet.
Imagine Alabama’s future. Young people will leave the state in droves, especially young women. The economy will further deteriorate. The women who stay are captive to misogyny. Millions, including me, will now boycott Alabama’s goods, services, and tourism. #BoycottAlabama
— Karen Wieland 🌊 (@drkarenwieland) May 15, 2019
Good. I’m glad dred Scott and Plessy v Ferguson were gutted into obsolescence, too. Despite the best efforts of Democrats.
— (((J. VanSteenwyk))) (@jwvansteenwyk) May 15, 2019
I just…I can never understand this mindset. Then again, usually the folks who take this tack would fucking support Plessy v. Ferguson if it happened now, so..
re: #59 Citizen K
I just…I can never understand this mindset. Then again, usually the folks who take this tack would fucking support Plessy v. Ferguson if it happened now, so..
Dred Scott and Plessey.
Which party do those supporters belong to now?
re: #58 Decatur Deb
I’m an Old White Man whose Time Has Come and Gone. Guess I’m condemned to work, donate, and vote for the Old White Men whose Time Has Come and Gone Party.
This divisive shit is going to kill the country, if not the planet.
Bernie’s popularity owed a lot to bots and ratfuckers who wanted to see him as the Democratic nominee, but not as the President. They are adopting a different strategy this time around.
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹
Dred Scott and Plessey.
Which party do those supporters belong to now?
I know far too many people who would swear up and down that it would still be the Dems, and that the Southern Strategy is as big a myth as Climate Change.
re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Bernie’s popularity owed a lot to bots and ratfuckers who wanted to see him as the Democratic nominee, but not as the President. They are adopting a different strategy this time around.
I wouldn’t have minded if Bernie had become POTUS. Absolutely did not want him for the Dem candidate.
re: #59 Citizen K
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I just…I can never understand this mindset. Then again, usually the folks who take this tack would fucking support Plessy v. Ferguson if it happened now, so..
They can never answer the questions when I ask if Civil Rights mattered so much to the GOP electorate, why was Goldwater nominated in 1964? Why did Nixon run away from his past support of Civil Rights? They can’t answer that because they know their party and ideology is hostile to Civil Rights. They’ll be claiming to have supported marriage equality eventually too.
re: #62 Citizen K
I know far too many people who would swear up and down that it would still be the Dems, and that the Southern Strategy is as big a myth as Climate Change.
And then they act like black voters are too stupid with the Dem Plantation crap.
re: #63 Decatur Deb
I wouldn’t have minded if Bernie had become POTUS. Absolutely did not want him for the Dem candidate.
would have preferred him over Trump, but I could also say that about most of the GOP field at this point.
the thing about watching colbert in the op is sure, there’s some jokes and making fun
mostly it’s getting very close to reporting and explaining
he’s just saying what the guy said and did
im not saying its not funny
it’s a comedy show, not a news show and it’s sad that that’s all he’s gotta do
we are so screwed
re: #67 DangerMan
the thing about watching colbert in the op is sure, there’s some jokes and making fun
mostly it’s getting very close to reporting and explaining
he’s just saying what the guy said and did
im not saying its not funny
it’s a comedy show, not a news show and it’s sad that that’s all he’s gotta dowe are so screwed
I watch shows like Colbert, Seth Meyers and Samantha Bee, but not to laugh. They are simply the only people who report things we need to hear.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I watch shows like Colbert, Seth Meyers and Samantha Bee, but not to laugh. They are simply the only people who report things we need to hear.
Comedians (or in olden times, the court jester) were frequently the ones who told those in power what they didn’t want to hear. The same applies to artists and musicians.
It is no accident that authoritarians (such as conservatives) try to regulate what is comedy, art, and music.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹
Comedians (or in olden times, the court jester) were frequently the ones who told those in power what they didn’t want to hear. The same applies to artists and musicians.
It is no accident that authoritarians (such as conservatives) try to regulate what is comedy, art, and music.
I never saw a President throw hissy fits over SNL sketches like our current one does.
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
Personally I am delighted by Bernie’s fall from grace. The Bernie fanatics that I know are not people whose judgement I trust. I will certainly support anyone who gets the Democratic nomination against Trump (and Pence); of course if (ha ha!) William Weld got the Republican nomination, I might prefer him to some Democrats.
like i always say, i dont care who or what you vote for
i care how you determinewho or what to vote for
re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter
You’re not an outlier here — the only qualification for membership is recognition that the contemporary Republican Party is evil incarnate. And like the rest of us, you dabble in law, economics, etc. One doesn’t need a degree to have thoughtful opinions and in-depth knowledge on a range of issues.
and scales
re: #72 DangerMan
and scales
I have one of those. It says I weigh 9 st 0# (because I set it to stones). /s
My wife has been fattening me up a bit.
re: #42 sagehen
Jimmy Carter and Mike Huckabee are both Southern Baptist. Their bibles are the same translation, the same edition, of the same selected chapters/books (other denominations may have different selections). They’ve probably prayed at the same specific churches on occasion, attended the same sermons given by the same preachers. And both will insist that their every policy position, every opinion on every moral question, is based on their understanding of what they read in those same Bibles.
But I’d be really hard-pressed to think of any remotely controversial question on which they’d vote the same way.
which leads to a truth most dont want to face or recognize, that all religion is second, and actually way more hands removed, information.
Everything you think you know about your religion was taught to you by someone else. You heard and saw nothing yourself.
Your teachers heard and saw nothing themselves either. How did they learn it to teach it to you? For them it’s just what other people say that other-other people before them heard or saw or told them.
Generation upon generation of interpretations of a questionable and multiple times translated, edited, and reorganized book. Those interpretations and translations themselves were argued about, *compromised* and evolved over time.
It’s all nothing but an appeal to apparent authority. And not even that good authority.
re: #74 DangerMan
Generation upon generation of interpretations of a questionable and multiple times translated, edited, and reorganized book. Those interpretations and translations themselves were argued about, *compromised* and evolved over time.
It’s all nothing but an appeal to apparent authority. And not even that good authority.
They want to convince you that you see it and feel it yourself.
Then they have you hooked.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I never saw a President throw hissy fits over SNL sketches like our current one does.
Quite the opposite with the late President Bush who loved Dana Carvey’s portrayal of him.
re: #76 HappyWarrior
Quite the opposite with the late President Bush who loved Dana Carvey’s portrayal of him.
re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was a candidate but yeah if Nixon is making you look like a humorless prick, you have a problems.
re: #79 HappyWarrior
He was a candidate but yeah if Nixon is making you look like a humorless prick, you have a problems.
Nixon was a crook but he was at least an experienced public servant who understood how government and diplomacy work.
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nixon was a crook but he was at least an experienced public servant who understood how government and diplomacy work.
He had accomplishments too. Trump likes to claim that the Russia investigation has impeding him from presiding. That’s bullshit. Watergate was being investigated while Nixon and Kissinger were doing the China policy.
re: #81 HappyWarrior
He had accomplishments too. Trump likes to claim that the Russia investigation has impeding him from presiding. That’s bullshit. Watergate was being investigated while Nixon and Kissinger were doing the China policy.
He would claim that SNL skits impede him from presiding.
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re: #81 HappyWarrior
He had accomplishments too. Trump likes to claim that the Russia investigation has impeding him from presiding. That’s bullshit. Watergate was being investigated while Nixon and Kissinger were doing the China policy.
Trump has 8-12 hours of executive free time scheduled every day
So I did an experiment and got myself a cheaper end weighted blanket. As with other trendy things, I was skeptical at first, but after a week of using it, I have to say it helps with my anxiety and being able to fall and stay asleep. The recommendations say to stay around 10 percent of your body weight or less when choosing a weight and they are NOT for kids. I’m still trying to understand why they’re so expensive (you could spend 400 bucks on one if you so desired). They also aren’t washable so I will have to make a cover for it. They are filled with some sort of tiny glass beads I guess. They are recommended for people with PTSD, ASDs, anxiety and sleep issues. They don’t work for everyone, I could see where one of these things could make you feel claustrophobic (which is why I went for a 10 lb over a 12 or 15 lb). The blanket is very warm so it can be a bit toasty at night. It was a good investment for 50 dollars(on sale at Target).
I am around, reading mostly, things here have been awful and I am struggling. I’m working on my yard and garden stuff when I can and figuring out where my life is supposed to go now. I turned 59 a couple weeks ago and I’m feeling kind of adrift these days. Working through a lot of loss and hurt from the last couple of years is exhausting. Throw in the destruction of American Idiots and it’s no wonder I can’t sleep and cry a lot. I know some of you have been through losses and hurts lately too( I do read, but Lordy ,keeping up with you all is crazy sometimes) and I hope you are finding ways to work it out,I send all of you virtual hugs every day. I have lost so much and so much has changed since 2016 that the sidewalk hit me in the face a few times and I am just trying to heal. I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop, I’m tired of it. Being outside helps, but it would be nice if this particular series of storms would move the fuck on already, you know?
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nixon was a crook but he was at least an experienced public servant who understood how government and diplomacy work.
Meanwhile, our current administration is filled to the brim with people who despise diplomacy as a concept, top to bottom.
re: #84 DangerMan
Trump has 8-12 hours of executive free time scheduled every day
Yep. Free time to brag and whine as he watches Fox.
re: #85 A Mom Anon
Don’t know your health particulars, but 59 is a good age to make another stab at serious physical fitness work. That’s the cheapest, safest thing you can do for a sense of well-being. (This does not include roller-blading in traffic.)
I’ve been preaching that to my middle-aged kids as I see them entering an age when the payback gets important. Practicing it at 75 is another story.
re: #86 Citizen K
It’s not just the despising diplomacy, they hate everything about our form of governance and will kill it from either willful stupidity or sheer greed and malice, or both. All of these fucks are a case study in why a cap on personal lifetime wealth could be a splendid idea. This is driven by greed, not just for money though, many of these POSs measure their success by the misery and suffering they can inflict. They measure that just as importantly as they do money.
re: #81 HappyWarrior
And navigating all through the Yom Kippur War, that could have turned into a hot war between the US and Soviet Union.
October 1973:
Yom Kippur War: October 6-23.
October 10, 1973: Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States due to corruption while he was the governor of Maryland.
October 12, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated as Vice President under the 25th Amendment.
October 20, 1973: “Saturday Night Massacre” - Nixon orders Elliot Richardson and Ruckelshaus to fire special prosecutor Cox. They both refuse to comply and resign. Robert Bork considers resigning but carries out the order.
re: #8 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Scale of time:
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my father was born in 1929. Died last year. He wasn’t quite old enough to fight in WWII, but if he’d been born in 1928, he could easily have gotten into the Pacific theater, lying about his age. I think of it like this: my maternal grandfather was born in 1900. Queen Victoria was still around. He could easily have fought in WWII. My office mate at UNO in 2000 was roughly 60 years old. His grandfather was born a slave. History isn’t nearly as old as we tend to think it is. 20 years ago, I was a young man. 20 years from now, it’s entirely possible I’ll be dead. (I mean, I’m in good health, so hopefully not, but 73 is old enough to where I could die in my sleep and nobody would think that was particularly odd.)
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
This is an older blog post, from a Christian on how she became disillusioned about the so-called pro-life movement. It took her several years, but she learned what it’s really about.
At one point she was the leader of her college’s pro-life group. Her voyage away from the pro-life movement and Christianity’s lies promoting it started with an article about abortion rates in various countries in the New York Times back in 2007.
Lying for Jesus is what led her out of Christianity.
It’s somewhat a long read, but worth it. She brings knowledge to the issue of what all the anti-safe abortion lobbying is really all about, as she was inside it.
How I Lost Faith in the Pro-Life Moveement (Goes to Love, Joy, Feminism at Patheos)
overall a lot of truth in a pretty good article. fair, though some predictable responses. so little actually changes over time.
i quibble about one thing and it’s probably meaningless because no one gets every word right exactly as i would have. but i’m me:
“The cause of abortions is unwanted pregnancies.”
a lot, maybe even most. though i’d venture later term ones tend towards medical issues and not ‘want’.
though the next sentence still is spot on:
“If you get rid of unwanted pregnancies the number of people who seek abortions will drop”
re: #1 Citizen K
That last one feels like it’s way too specific in talking about Trump. That applies to the entirety of the GOP. The equivocating about folks and ‘economic anxiety’ when it was clear that if it wasn’t active racial animus, then at the least passive tolerance of racial animus from their fellow voters that gave Trump and the GOP the position of nigh unlimited power to remold the country for the next two gens with precious minimal hope of stopping them much less undoing the damage.
Is he superstitious about Braille? Or is he just being an A-hole? You know, being himself?
I think I know which one.
re: #92 DangerMan
overall a lot of truth in a pretty good article. fair, though some predictable responses. so little actually changes over time.
i quibble about one thing and it’s probably meaningless because no one gets every word right exactly as i would have. but i’m me:
“The cause of abortions is unwanted pregnancies.”
a lot, maybe even most. though i’d venture later term ones tend towards medical issues and not ‘want’.though the next sentence still is spot on:
“If you get rid of unwanted pregnancies the number of people who seek abortions will drop”
There are definitely abortions of truly wanted pregnancies, for all sorts of medical reasons.
The pro-liars don’t care about that.
re: #59 Citizen K
“I’m so glad black men were finally given the rights they deserve. Women, on the other hand, shouldn’t have any” is what you’re saying, right?
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) May 15, 2019
re: #91 steve_davis
There have been several “last” Confederate widows. One died near here 15 years ago. (Admittedly, there is a sociological joke in there—XX Cent economics and eldercare practices led to a lot of late marriages, but this marriage produced a child.)
en.wikipedia.org
Well I wake up, look at Talking Points Memo and see that the Republicans have come up with another pair of asshole candidates.
Asshole #1 wrote North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill…
Asshole #2 posts Tweets from Q and is a full blown birther…
re: #91 steve_davis
my father was born in 1929. Died last year. He wasn’t quite old enough to fight in WWII, but if he’d been born in 1928, he could easily have gotten into the Pacific theater, lying about his age. I think of it like this: my maternal grandfather was born in 1900. Queen Victoria was still around. He could easily have fought in WWII. My office mate at UNO in 2000 was roughly 60 years old. His grandfather was born a slave. History isn’t nearly as old as we tend to think it is. 20 years ago, I was a young man. 20 years from now, it’s entirely possible I’ll be dead. (I mean, I’m in good health, so hopefully not, but 73 is old enough to where I could die in my sleep and nobody would think that was particularly odd.)
My grandfather was born in 1929 as well. His father in 1889 and his father’s father in 1862. Doing genealogical research really has made me think about time. My grandparents all had grandparents that lived through a lot of changes. I imagine future generations will see your generation the same way.
Thanks for weighing in. So helpful. Perhaps you should’ve thought of this before November 2016. https://t.co/rK1oSxMALG
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 15, 2019
re: #96 Decatur Deb
There have been several “last” Confederate widows. One died near here 15 years ago. (Admittedly, there is a sociological joke in there—XX Cent economics and eldercare practices led to a lot of late marriages, but this marriage produced a child.)
en.wikipedia.org
President Tyler who was President in the early 1840’s has living grandsons. That’s crazy.
re: #97 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well I wake up, look at Talking Points Memo and see that the Republicans have come up with another pair of asshole candidates.
Asshole #1 wrote North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill…
Asshole #2 posts Tweets from Q and is a full blown birther…
That’s the thing. They keep nominating awful people.
#SCOTUSlinkoftheday: In op-ed adapted from new memoir, retired Justice John Paul Stevens calls D.C. v. Heller, recognizing individual right to firearms, “unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the Supreme Court announced during my tenure” https://t.co/nJ93jtnJmi
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) May 15, 2019
Every woman and every person of color in the Alabama Senate — plus four white male Republicans —- voted for the rape and incest exception. pic.twitter.com/8SonQmbjM2
— Dan Lavoie (@djlavoie) May 15, 2019
re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #91 steve_davis
my father was born in 1929. Died last year. He wasn’t quite old enough to fight in WWII, but if he’d been born in 1928, he could easily have gotten into the Pacific theater, lying about his age. I think of it like this: my maternal grandfather was born in 1900. Queen Victoria was still around. He could easily have fought in WWII. My office mate at UNO in 2000 was roughly 60 years old. His grandfather was born a slave. History isn’t nearly as old as we tend to think it is. 20 years ago, I was a young man. 20 years from now, it’s entirely possible I’ll be dead. (I mean, I’m in good health, so hopefully not, but 73 is old enough to where I could die in my sleep and nobody would think that was particularly odd.)
more on scale of time
sometimes i think about how far back just one live generation goes
i was lucky to have all four grandparents - all born in the 1890’s
- my dad went into business with his dad
when we graduated, my brother and i went in with them and for 6 years, three generations were practicing together. my grandfather happily worked until the day he died in 1985 at 91.
- my mom’s dad lived to 94
- mom’s mom to 105 in 1999
point of all this is i was lucky to know three of my grandparents for a very long time.
that’s direct - me to them. i am who i am because of how we evolved together and because of what i learned from them of at least some parts of life and the world before i existed.
so going back just one live link, how far back did their individual lives span? did they know their grands and other folks? for how long? how much history of that prior world were they exposed to? that question is lost to time
Factory output dropped for 3d time in four months in US. Trump claims steel industry is back despite actual data showing nothing of the sort.
This isn’t gaslighting. It isn’t even bulkshit.
It’s the complete subversion of reality and media reporting Trump statements as anything other than the lies they should be rightfully identified as.
No media outlet should post anything attributed to Trump without the disclaimer/statement:
Trump lied when ….
Trump repeated the lie that…..
Trump lies again when saying….
Speaking about X, Trump lied ….
re: #106 DangerMan
more on scale of time
sometimes i think about how far back just one live generation goesi was lucky to have all four grandparents - all born in the 1890’s
- my dad went into business with his dad
when we graduated, my brother and i went in with them and for 6 years, three generations were practicing together. my grandfather happily worked until the day he died in 1985 at 91.
- my mom’s dad lived to 94
- mom’s mom to 105 in 1999point of all this is i was lucky to know three of my grandparents for a very long time.
that’s direct - me to them. i am who i am because of how we evolved together and because of what i learned from them of at least some parts of life and the world before i existed.so going back just one live link, how far back did their individual lives span? did they know their grands and other folks? for how long? how much history of that prior world were they exposed to? that question is lost to time
I wonder about this kind of stuff too. From what I have discovered, I think my Nana(father’s mother), I think her parents were living with her mother’s widowed mother and her mother’s then unmarried brother at the time of her birth in 1912. I also know that their great grandmother (their mother’s paternal grandmother) was living with an aunt that lived nearby when my Nana’s older brother and sister were born in 1903 and 1905. I have her obituary. She only spoke Irish. This was a lady who certainly knew people born in the 18th century whose granddaughter’s children still impact us today in the 21st. I don’t know what kind of person third Great Nana Bridget was but her life fascinates me.
401 years ago #today (May 15, 1618) Johannes Kepler discovered the simple mathematical rule governing the orbits of the solar system’s planets, now recognized as Kepler’s Third Law of planetary motion. This is his house in Linz, Austria https://t.co/oje6MDQ858 pic.twitter.com/XaB71sVmK0
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 15, 2019
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Earliest person I can find with my surname was born four years later. Funnily he has my name but in German.
25 white men in Alabama, who can never get pregnant, decided that rapists’ rights are more important than the rights of the women and girls they’ve raped.
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) May 15, 2019
re: #16 Joe Bacon 🌹
I can never forgive the Xtians who blasted my sister for having a late term abortion because the fetus died. They laid the guilt on her so thick that she became a radical forced birther. Even her kids got in the clinic picketing shit.
If the fetus was already dead, it wasn’t an abortion.
Reminding everyone that Christian conservatives didn’t see abortion as a moral issue in the years after SCOTUS decision, their leaders even *praised* Roe.
They later exploited abortion to build political power & oppose racial integration of schools. https://t.co/caDEOVSErZ https://t.co/ZbYpxRFuTD— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) May 15, 2019
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They thought it was a Catholic thing. But then they saw it as a winning political issue as Sam points out. They’re frauds.
re: #31 Anymouse 🌹
I always thought the word “dabble” is strange in the way a lot of people feel about “moist.”
I don’t believe the Republican Party is evil per se, as evil is a religious construct. I do believe they care about power more than anything else, and that they will toss democracy before they will give up power.
That is pretty much the definition of evil. The GOP follows Voldemort: “There is no good or evil. There is only power, and those too afraid to use it.”
re: #114 HappyWarrior
They thought it was a Catholic thing. But then they saw it as a winning political issue as Sam points out. They’re frauds.
Unfortunately, as we’re seeing, they’re wholly successful frauds.
re: #98 HappyWarrior
My grandfather was born in 1929 as well. His father in 1889 and his father’s father in 1862. Doing genealogical research really has made me think about time. My grandparents all had grandparents that lived through a lot of changes. I imagine future generations will see your generation the same way.
Both of my grandfathers were born in 1911.
My maternal grandfather was in the Marine Corps Reserve during WW2 and did not deploy outside the USA. My paternal grandfather was one of my “illegal immigrant” family members from Poland and died in WW2.
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
25 white men in Alabama, who can never get pregnant, decided that rapists’ rights are more important than the rights of the women and girls they’ve raped.
wait till it’s a white woman and ‘non-white’ rapist
re: #117 Anymouse 🌹
Both of my grandfathers were born in 1911.
My maternal grandfather was in the Marine Corps Reserve during WW2 and did not deploy outside the USA. My paternal grandfather was one of my “illegal immigrant” family members from Poland and died in WW2.
My oldest grandparent was my Dad’s mom in 1912 and the youngest mom’s dad in 1929. It’s just crazy to think as Steve and DM have got at the interactions between the generations. Your grandfather from Poland would have known people who knew people who lived in Poland before the partition of Poland.
*replaces lyrics to Karma Chameleon with fuck you and it still is not enough fuck you’s to represent all the fuck you’s deserved* https://t.co/qUdj43S45w
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) May 15, 2019
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥T H I S 💥💥💥💥💥💥 https://t.co/3JFKt4lsXl
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) May 15, 2019
re: #112 NO SMOCKING GUN!
If the fetus was already dead, it wasn’t an abortion.
It was an abortion according to those asshole Xtians!
re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth
Something tells me that their mistresses will still be able to get an abortion with ease…
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) May 15, 2019
What if the reason the measles outbreak has been centered in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community doesn’t have to do with low vaccination rates? Read this intriguing op-ed. https://t.co/LmULNnlQcp pic.twitter.com/NIPTEGRrXH
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) May 15, 2019
O_o
Thank you Joe and remember, the BRAIN is much sharper also! https://t.co/h1fG1GRQ99
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2019
oh
Trump’s envoy in Budapest says the U.S. president likened Orban to a twin brother: “It’s like we’re twins,” Trump told Orban.https://t.co/NBVQZAQ72P
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 15, 2019
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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Joe Scarborough needs glasses. He looks close in age to Bernie and Biden but he looks old enough and is in fact old enough to be Pete’s grandfather. He’s also old enough to be several of the others’ fathers. Trump looks like an old man.
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yeah we get it Donald, you like Orban because he’s autocratic and hates minorities too. Why don’t you two bond over a bowl of goulash in prison?
Dictionary with the burn of the day
The word cisgender is believed to have entered the English language in the early 1990s. #ItsAlsoInTheDictionaryhttps://t.co/OgrASJXECx https://t.co/gCbUPtuh1Y
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dictionary with the burn of the day
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Says the guy who uses Judeo-Christian.
re: #124 The Vicious Babushka
There is an anti-vaxxer presence in ultra-orthodox communities contributing to the measles outbreak. Orthodox Jewish nurses are fighting it. https://t.co/XbXJykq5kV
— Amy (@AmyOlive) May 15, 2019
re: #114 HappyWarrior
They thought it was a Catholic thing. But then they saw it as a winning political issue as Sam points out. They’re frauds.
GOP/Evangelicals=Fraud all the way down.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹
My daughter belongs to this group.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
Give them a side-by-side at the same scale, with the same down-lighting.
Republicans believe life begins at conception and ends at birth pic.twitter.com/r04XPYrnE2
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) May 15, 2019
re: #124 The Vicious Babushka
The claim in the op-ed is the high concentration of people living close together.
That pretty much sums up all of New York City. The outbreak however is centred on the Orthodox Jewish community.
I’m not an epidemiologist, nor do I play one on television, but I was not aware that diseases could target specific religious communities.
Anti-vaxxers can though.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
I get a kick out of how these gun humpers can take something so clear as “well regulated” and twist it into meaning “absolutely no regulations of guns allowed”. Funny but the same time, scary as hell.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 15, 2019
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹
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Orthodox Jews have a higher vaccination rate than other private school communities, and it’s definitely over the 95% rate that’s considered “herd immunity”.
But they have large families, who all spend a lot of time with the other families in the community, so a Williamsburg Orthodox kid will have close contact with a LOT more other kids than Dalton, Brearly or Horace Mann kids.
To Alabama’s dismal education and child poverty ratings, a respondent adds this fact to counter its ‘pro-life’ boast: The state has the highest rate of child mortality.https://t.co/CYKovQtChV
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) May 15, 2019
re: #137 Anymouse 🌹
The claim in the op-ed is the high concentration of people living close together.
That pretty much sums up all of New York City. The outbreak however is centred on the Orthodox Jewish community.
I’m not an epidemiologist, nor do I play one on television, but I was not aware that diseases could target specific religious communities.
Anti-vaxxers can though.
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Intentional targeting to be able to stoke up hatred when the inevitable results from anti-vaxxing present themselves?
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re: #141 Teukka
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Intentional targeting to be able to stoke up hatred when the inevitable results from anti-vaxxing present themselves?
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It would be interesting to know the identities of those behind the publication (Peach) who choose to remain anonymous.
Oh, good morning!
re: #140 jaunte
Dummy weighs in to respond to that tweet:
I don’t understand, @jackiekcalmes. You act as though state legislators could actually do something about these problems.
— Barry Toiv (@BarryToiv) May 15, 2019
Yeah, they could do a lot. Everything from prenatal healthcare to supporting women’s access to contraceptives, sexual education, and medical care.
That would take tax money though, so I guess there really isn’t something Republican legislators can do about those problems. The right to life of a dollar bill shall not be infringed.
re: #108 HappyWarrior
I wonder about this kind of stuff too. From what I have discovered, I think my Nana(father’s mother), I think her parents were living with her mother’s widowed mother and her mother’s then unmarried brother at the time of her birth in 1912. I also know that their great grandmother (their mother’s paternal grandmother) was living with an aunt that lived nearby when my Nana’s older brother and sister were born in 1903 and 1905. I have her obituary. She only spoke Irish. This was a lady who certainly knew people born in the 18th century whose granddaughter’s children still impact us today in the 21st. I don’t know what kind of person third Great Nana Bridget was but her life fascinates me.
This goes the other way too. I realized the other day that my goddaughter, born in 2016, has a pretty decent chance of living to see the 22nd century, as do many other children born today. The future is not as far away as we’d like to think either.
This is really cool. MuckRock has annotated a version of the Mueller Report with links to all the public references in footnotes. https://t.co/v20ufHtzzi
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 15, 2019
re: #143 lizardofid
It would be interesting to know the identities of those behind the publication (Peach) who choose to remain anonymous.
Oh, good morning!
It would also be interesting how they got it to the top of Google’s search function when you type Peach and antivax.
Trumponomics alert: “Retail sales unexpectedly fall amid weak auto purchases”
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
This goes the other way too. I realized the other day that my goddaughter, born in 2016, has a pretty decent chance of living to see the 22nd century, as do many other children born today. The future is not as far away as we’d like to think either.
Yeah it’s very possible your goddaughter and my niece will live in the 22nd century.Crazy.
re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg
Trumponomics alert: “Retail sales unexpectedly fall amid weak auto purchases”
“Under Glorious MAGA POTUS auto sales have increased yuuugely from 3 million to 2 million!”
Facepalm time…
Former White House official Seb Gorka, predictably, spent some of his radio show airtime Tuesday complaining about the wedding of two cartoon characters on the PBS show “Arthur.”
Arthur’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, married a man (or, more accurately, an anthropomorphized animal of some kind) on the most recent episode.
“Did you have any questions about there being a culture war, ladies and gentlemen?” Gorka asked. “Did you have any doubt in your mind? This is a war for our culture.”
Gorka said that his kids used to watch “Arthur,” but based on his description of the show, TPM has some doubts: It’s “about a rodent-like creature that lived and had fun in his cartoon world,” he said.
re: #136 jaunte
Republicans believe your rights
lifebeginsat conception and endsat birth
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) May 15, 2019
Slight, but important, edit.
Proposed Republican slogan: “Once you’re out of the womb, fuck off.”
re: #143 lizardofid
It would be interesting to know the identities of those behind the publication (Peach) who choose to remain anonymous.
Oh, good morning!
In my experience, people remain anonymous when they know that if they wrote things under their own name, they’d be recognized relatively fast (and possibly dealt with).
And there are places where everyone is anonymous, like the █chans.
Testifying under oath means very little in Donnie’s America.
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
Proposed Republican slogan: “Once you’re out of the womb, fuck off.”
“you are the responsibility of your parents, namely your rapist father and your traumatized single teenage mother.”
Also, I have to again call the GOP out on their hypocrisy.
They think they can stop abortion by making the procedure illegal but at the same time they’ll scream at your until their throat is dry that gun control laws are stupid because: “bad guys will always find a way to get guns.”
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“you are the responsibility of your parents, namely your rapist father and your traumatized single teenage mother.”
“….of which there is a distinct possibility that your rapist father is also the father of your single teenage mother. Have a swell life.”
re: #152 Joe Bacon 🌹
Facepalm time…
Former White House official Seb Gorka, predictably, spent some of his radio show airtime Tuesday complaining about the wedding of two cartoon characters on the PBS show “Arthur.”
Arthur’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, married a man (or, more accurately, an anthropomorphized animal of some kind) on the most recent episode.
“Did you have any questions about there being a culture war, ladies and gentlemen?” Gorka asked. “Did you have any doubt in your mind? This is a war for our culture.”
Gorka said that his kids used to watch “Arthur,” but based on his description of the show, TPM has some doubts: It’s “about a rodent-like creature that lived and had fun in his cartoon world,” he said.
Same sex marriage is legal, you hateful elf.
re: #159 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, I have to again call the GOP out on their hypocrisy.
They think they can stop abortion by making the procedure illegal but at the same time they’ll scream at your until their throat is dry that gun control laws are stupid because: “bad guys will always find a way to get guns.”
Exactly
A balkanization of America is my preferred outcome to breaking bread with these american fascists.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
Same sex marriage is legal, you hateful elf.
Why does that Nazi have a radio show?
re: #163 Amory Blaine
A balkanization of America is my preferred outcome to breaking bread with these american fascists.
The problem is unlike the Balkans, our divide is politically based and not geographical. But I hear ya.
re: #164 Joe Bacon 🌹
Why does that Nazi have a radio show?
I have no idea. I bet he’s thrilled by Trump’s praise of Orban.
re: #140 jaunte
After Alabama passes bill to outlaw abortion Tuesday, the state’s GOP Senate majority leader boasts that it “simply recognizes that an unborn baby is a child who deserves protection.”
Protection? Alabama is LAST in state rankings for education and 4th highest for child poverty.
an ‘unborn baby’ is neither a baby nor a child. <<<<<<<<<—— Full stop.
the US constitution never contemplated (or has been interpreted that) any other conditional requirement to be a person or citizen than to be born (have survived the birthing or surgery process).
whatever you think it may ‘deserve’, and whether it is ‘human’ and is ‘life’, it is not a singular, constitutionally protected human life.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
Yeah it’s very possible your goddaughter and my niece will live in the 22nd century.Crazy.
My son would have to live to be 113.
Not entirely impossible, but very unlikely.
I’m not sure of the life expectancy of men in the USA, but I imagine if I make it to 2040 I’d be doing really well (aside from my risk of SUDEPS).
My neighbour is out mowing my lawn hence I’m still awake from the noise.
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹
My son would have to live to be 113.
Not entirely impossible, but very unlikely.
I’m not sure of the life expectancy of men in the USA, but I imagine if I make it to 2040 I’d be doing really well (aside from my risk of SUDEPS).
My neighbour is out mowing my lawn hence I’m still awake from the noise.
I would too. Not expecting it but life is changing everyday.
re: #163 Amory Blaine
A balkanization of America is my preferred outcome to breaking bread with these american fascists.
I hope there will be an airlift of liberally-minded people from Jesusland then.
re: #159 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, I have to again call the GOP out on their hypocrisy.
They think they can stop abortion by making the procedure illegal but at the same time they’ll scream at your until their throat is dry that gun control laws are stupid because: “bad guys will always find a way to get guns.”
there’s your slogan:
“bad girls will always find a way to get abortions”
heck, we know they already think they’re ‘bad’
re: #164 Joe Bacon 🌹
Why does that Nazi have a radio show?
THE NAZIS WERE ALL TEH GAY11!!! CHEK MATE, LIBS!!!
re: #171 DangerMan
“
badrich girls will always find a way togetpay for abortions”
People like Gorka who complain about that shit amuse me. Do same sex marriages not happen? His kids are going to meet gay people who are married. Good for Arthur for making the matter relatable.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
Same sex marriage is legal, you hateful elf.
For now. If SCOTUS gets away with over turning Roe, there is nothing to keep them from reversing themselves on the DOM decision. If tRump gets another SCOTUS pick, we as a Nation are screwed. From were I sit, while taking back the W.H. would be nice, taking back the Senate is even more important.
re: #174 HappyWarrior
People like Gorka who complain about that shit amuse me. Do same sex marriages not happen? His kids are going to meet gay people who are married. Good for Arthur for making the matter relatable.
That’s presumably the heart of the problem for Gorka. Same sex marriage is being normalized for impressionable children. The horror of consenting adults having happy lives which have absolutely no effect on anyone else.
re: #175 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
For now. If SCOTUS gets away with over turning Roe, there is nothing to keep them from reversing themselves on the DOM decision. If tRump gets another SCOTUS pick, we as a Nation are screwed. From were I sit, while taking back the W.H. would be nice, taking back the Senate is even more important.
Agree. Just saying that he’s acting like something that is legal is somehow indoctrination of kids. Series like that display lgbt or other characters I think are great because they make the matter relatable. The muppets had an autistic muppet which was great imo.
re: #176 calochortus
That’s presumably the heart of the problem for Gorka. Same sex marriage is being normalized for impressionable children. The horror of consenting adults having happy lives which have absolutely no effect on anyone else.
Yep and worse is he’s probably afraid his kids will ask him why people made a big deal about this.
re: #176 calochortus
That’s presumably the heart of the problem for Gorka. Same sex marriage is being normalized for impressionable children. The horror of consenting adults having happy lives which have absolutely no effect on anyone else.
He would be happy with the Putin approach: gays are legally tolerated, but “homosexual propaganda” is illegal.
re: #175 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
For now. If SCOTUS gets away with over turning Roe, there is nothing to keep them from reversing themselves on the DOM decision. If tRump gets another SCOTUS pick, we as a Nation are screwed. From were I sit, while taking back the W.H. would be nice, taking back the Senate is even more important.
If SCOTUS overturns Roe, the Blue Wave of 2018 will look like a puddle compared to what will happen to the GOP in 2020.
re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He would be happy with the Putin approach: gays are tolerated, but “homosexual propaganda” is illegal.
Gays definitely aren’t tolerated in Putin’s Russia.
re: #181 HappyWarrior
Gays definitely aren’t tolerated in Putin’s Russia.
should be more clear: homosexuality per se is not illegal.
but people who persecute gays are also tolerated…
re: #124 The Vicious Babushka
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What if the reason the measles outbreak has been centered in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community doesn’t have to do with low vaccination rates? Read this intriguing op-ed. nydailynews.com …35
9:18 AM - May 15, 2019
A statement popularized by Mark Twain: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Let’s suppose of the 200 schools, 192 have 100% vaccinated and 8 have 0%; the average rate is 96%, but the students at those 8 schools are very likely to become ill.
re: #177 HappyWarrior
Agree. Just saying that he’s acting like something that is legal is somehow indoctrination of kids. Series like that display lgbt or other characters I think are great because they make the matter relatable. The muppets had an autistic muppet which was great imo.
I know, but legal does not equal moral. I do understand people objecting to laws they believe are immoral, however there is a big difference between things like slavery which involve abuse and the lack of consent, and same sex marriage which does not.
The former should be resisted to protect both individuals and society, but the latter is a matter of personal choice and if I think it’s immoral I just should refrain from doing it myself.
re: #184 calochortus
The former should be resisted to protect both individuals and society, but the latter is a matter of personal choice and if I think it’s immoral I just should refrain from doing it myself.
It is also based on the notion that homosexuality is unnatural and cannot be hereditary because gays don’t reproduce, therefore gays have to recruit impressionable children to propagate their abominations…
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is also based on the notion that homosexuality is unnatural and cannot be hereditary because gays don’t reproduce, therefore gays have to recruit impressionable children to propagate their abominations…
Thus revealing (yet again) their lack of understanding about How Things Work.
Odds are that if you saw various A list celebrities suddenly accused of pedophilia by QAnon creeps, this guy was behind the false claims. https://t.co/uzilRO5zbn
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 14, 2019
Check out JJ’s thread. Another Qwazy Q has bit the dust…
re: #186 calochortus
Thus revealing (yet again) their lack of understanding about How Things Work.
revealing a 19th-century understanding of How Things Work
re: #180 Dr. Matt
If SCOTUS overturns Roe, the Blue Wave of 2018 will look like a puddle compared to what will happen to the GOP in 2020.
I hope so.
re: #182 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
should be more clear: homosexuality per se is not illegal.
but people who persecute gays are also tolerated…
Yeah but it’s not like the US before Obergfell either. It may not be Saudi Arabia but it’s not welcome to gay people.
re: #184 calochortus
I know, but legal does not equal moral. I do understand people objecting to laws they believe are immoral, however there is a big difference between things like slavery which involve abuse and the lack of consent, and same sex marriage which does not.
The former should be resisted to protect both individuals and society, but the latter is a matter of personal choice and if I think it’s immoral I just should refrain from doing it myself.
True true.
re: #175 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
If Trump and the Republican party remain in power, legal abortion is over. Same sex marriage is over. Americans with disabilities act is over. The EPA will be gone. Public schools as we’ve known them will be finished. Legalized discrimination will be the norm. In fact, pretty much everything that has made this country a great work in progress will be gone.
Four years of Trump pretty much guarantees most of these things, but if he gets another four years, this country will not survive. It won’t be a peaceful divorce.
re: #175 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Steven Breyer warned us the other day the court is overturning precedence.
re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth
Please stop using made up gibberish non-words like “cisgendered.” There is no chance of us having a dialogue if you are not speaking English. https://t.co/nnlNxyB72M
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 15, 2019
He’s from the old and venerated Walsh-Blog family, they’re from a place in England made entirely of foggy evenings.
— Spike Richardson 🌹 (@MagusDeluxe) May 15, 2019
re: #194 Ace-o-aces
Please stop using made up gibberish non-words like “cisgendered.” There is no chance of us having a dialogue if you are not speaking English
You are not cis-co-kidding anyone, you know
OH HAI BABY WHIPLASH
Abortion isn’t just legal in Israel, it’s free.
So all the anti-abortion #maga ppl praising Alabama & trying to kill #RoeVWade will probably start demanding we end all US aid to Israel, am I right?— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 15, 2019
Trump Supporters Like Liberal Policies, But Not Liberals
“Some of President Trump’s supporters in Sioux City, Iowa love liberal populist proposals. They just don’t love the 2020 Democrats as the messengers,” Axios reports.
“A focus group of swing voters — all of whom voted for Trump in 2016 — strongly supported a student loan debt plan that would cancel up to $50,000 in student debt for people whose families make less than $100,000 per year. (That’s Elizabeth Warren’s proposal, though her name wasn’t mentioned in the question.) They also want to tax American corporations, specifically big banks, to pay for Trump’s infrastructure plans.”
“This was the main takeaway from the Engagious/FPG focus group of swing voters… which included 11 voters who supported Barack Obama and then Trump. All but one said they would re-elect Trump if it were him versus Hillary Clinton again.”
the takeaway comment from disqus:
“We need to ask why people embrace liberal policies while thinking they can vote for conservatives to get them.”
re: #199 DangerMan
Because they’re profoundly stupid.
re: #199 DangerMan
Trump Supporters Like Liberal Policies, But Not Liberals
the takeaway comment from disqus:
“We need to ask why people embrace liberal policies while thinking they can vote for conservatives to get them.”
Delusion.
re: #200 plansbandc
Because they’re profoundly stupid.
They think Trump is one of them while they despise people like Warren, Obama, and Clinton who come from the Middle Class.
re: #180 Dr. Matt
If SCOTUS overturns Roe, the Blue Wave of 2018 will look like a puddle compared to what will happen to the GOP in 2020.
I would hope so. But I’m not holding my breath either.
re: #197 The Vicious Babushka
OH HAI BABY WHIPLASH
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He never attacks Bibi at all for doing nothing to change that. He’s a hypocritical chode goblin.
re: #199 DangerMan
Trump Supporters Like Liberal Policies, But Not Liberals
the takeaway comment from disqus:
“We need to ask why people embrace liberal policies while thinking they can vote for conservatives to get them.”
Trump, not having a record of public service, was able to promise them anything and everything and they bought it. He can now sell them excuses for not delivering (victim of a witch hunt, a hostile media, defectors in his own ranks, deep state interference, etc.,) and continue to get away from it.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
Delusion.
The delusion is that they “deserve” liberal policies. Those people over there will abuse them. Conservatives are good at implying that their policies will aid their voters without subsidizing those undeserving people.
re: #187 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Tots and pears.
re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I would hope so. But I’m not holding my breath either.
I think it would because you don’t know what you had until you lose it. However, I don’t want to risk it obviously since Roe was hard fought in the first place and it’s been harder fought still preserving it these past 46 years.
re: #206 calochortus
The delusion is that they “deserve” liberal policies. Those people over there will abuse them. Conservatives are good at implying that their policies will aid their voters without subsidizing those undeserving people.
Exactly.
re: #206 calochortus
The delusion is that they “deserve” liberal policies. Those people over there will abuse them. Conservatives are good at implying that their policies will aid their voters without subsidizing those undeserving people.
a Conservative New Deal, which like the original New Deal, largely excludes minorities
re: #187 Joe Bacon 🌹
Read that - sounds like the ramblings of a paranoid psychotic.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
a Conservative New Deal, which like the original New Deal, largely excludes minorities
Which I’m sad to say is probably why the original New Deal stood up for so long but the second Truman, JFK, and especially LBJ started including minorities in the Fair Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society, the cracks started showing. That’s why I get annoyed with Sanders acting like the Dems abandoned the working class. Large amounts of working class voters abandoned the Dems due to their own prejudices.
re: #187 Joe Bacon 🌹
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He was murdered! COVERUP!
re: #192 plansbandc
If Trump and the Republican party remain in power, legal abortion is over. Same sex marriage is over. Americans with disabilities act is over. The EPA will be gone. Public schools as we’ve known them will be finished. Legalized discrimination will be the norm. In fact, pretty much everything that has made this country a great work in progress will be gone.
Four years of Trump pretty much guarantees most of these things, but if he gets another four years, this country will not survive. It won’t be a peaceful divorce.
Which is why I have a bug out plan in place.
re: #212 HappyWarrior
Which I’m sad to say is probably why the original New Deal stood up for so long but the second Truman, JFK, and especially LBJ started including minorities in the Fair Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society, the cracks started showing. That’s why I get annoyed with Sanders acting like the Dems abandoned the working class. Large amounts of working class voters abandoned the Dems due to their own prejudices.
and got scooped up by the Southern Strategy
There’s a WaPo article today on Barr. I didn’t realize that Barr was so influential in the powerful executive stuff that we first started seeing in the Bush II administration. He’s also a giant hypocrite- shocker I know. He criticized the Dems who criticized Starr in the late 90’s. Barr is a particularly dangerous AG since he seems to believe that there should be an all powerful executive especially if it’s a Republican one. And this was interesting but he advised H.W. Bush not to seek Congressional approval after Hussein invaded Kuwait. Watch for that if Trump starts talking about doing something in Iran or Venezuela or anywhere.
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and got scooped up by the Southern Strategy
That pretty much honestly was the Southern Strategy though what I’m talking about also worked in the Rust Belt too. The Reagan Dems went for the most hostile towards working class people Presidential candidate in their lifetime with Reagan. Nixon started the Southern Strategy but Reagan is the one who perfected it.
re: #214 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I wish we did, but we don’t have the money to get out. If Trumpworld gets organized, the van will be coming in the night for me. They might spare dude. He’s white, cisgender, and keeps his politics to himself (generally). Though he has gone to a couple of protests with me, so maybe not.
re: #216 HappyWarrior
Barr…advised H.W. Bush not to seek Congressional approval after Hussein invaded Kuwait. Watch for that if Trump starts talking about doing something in Iran or Venezuela or anywhere.
Trump is not about to ask even his own party for permission to start the next war, and a I have a strong feeling that is one of the reasons he took Barr on.
this comment was posted on politicalwire.com in response to that liberal policies link i just put up
- All the people in this thread calling these people “ignorant,” “stupid,” and “damaged” are only helping to illustrate why many folks in red / rural parts of the country are not fond of liberals for personal reasons…
two short responses:
No. Sorry. Tired of this horseshit. If people demonstrate total abject stupidity and ignorance over 20 years a fair minded person even runs outta patience. Maybe THEY need to consider why WE look at them that way instead of that sanctimonious Midwestern/Real American horseshit they do. Works both ways.
and
Really? Isn’t it ignorance when many, many poorer whites in Red states have no clue that they qualify for Medicaid under the Obamacare expansion? Or that they can get a good health plan with generous subsidies on the exchanges if they make less than $30K?
And what do you call it when these same ignorant people then resent the black and brown people who are aware of and receiving these benefits? I’d say it’s pretty fucking stupid to resent others for getting what you yourself could get IF YOU ONLY BOTHERED TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT.
and then this - it seems to have been going around - by a guy named adam-troy castro
i think originally on facebook (which i dont do)
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re: #197 The Vicious Babushka
OH HAI BABY WHIPLASH
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Well there’s that survey showing a majority of Americans oppose using Arabic numerals…
re: #216 HappyWarrior
There’s a WaPo article today on Barr. I didn’t realize that Barr was so influential in the powerful executive stuff that we first started seeing in the Bush II administration. He’s also a giant hypocrite- shocker I know. He criticized the Dems who criticized Starr in the late 90’s. Barr is a particularly dangerous AG since he seems to believe that there should be an all powerful executive especially if it’s a Republican one. And this was interesting but he advised H.W. Bush not to seek Congressional approval after Hussein invaded Kuwait. Watch for that if Trump starts talking about doing something in Iran or Venezuela or anywhere.
Yep, they’ll find a way to use the 2001 AUMF to justify anything they do.
re: #200 plansbandc
Because they’re profoundly stupid.
No, it’s because they are profoundly Racist.
They will give up everything and become the lowest of the low white people all for the feeling they are still above the highest black man.
re: #214 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Which is why I have a bug out plan in place.
I only live 20 minutes from the border and up-to-date passport.
🚨 The Texas House just passed a bill that would penalize activists who engage in civil disobedience with a felony and up to 10 years in jail.
The bill is an oil & gas backed effort to squash environmental protest.
This needs to be a nation-wide story. https://t.co/5VmXjzWslJ— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) May 15, 2019
re: #216 HappyWarrior
There’s a WaPo article today on Barr. I didn’t realize that Barr was so influential in the powerful executive stuff that we first started seeing in the Bush II administration. He’s also a giant hypocrite- shocker I know. He criticized the Dems who criticized Starr in the late 90’s. Barr is a particularly dangerous AG since he seems to believe that there should be an all powerful executive especially if it’s a Republican one. And this was interesting but he advised H.W. Bush not to seek Congressional approval after Hussein invaded Kuwait. Watch for that if Trump starts talking about doing something in Iran or Venezuela or anywhere.
if trump manages to start something in the ME or south america - (or anywhere) that’ll be all four of the last four republican presidents starting an armed conflict
re: #228 plansbandc
It’s what they do.
And then when Democratic presidents try to fix their fuck ups, they complain about apology tours.
re: #218 plansbandc
I wish we did, but we don’t have the money to get out. If Trumpworld gets organized, the van will be coming in the night for me. They might spare dude. He’s white, cisgender, and keeps his politics to himself (generally). Though he has gone to a couple of protests with me, so maybe not.
Same here. As an opposition politician, an atheist, I’m toast.
Since authoritarian regimes also tend to do things like round up the intelligentsia (regardless of education level), I would also not be surprised if they went after high-IQ society rolls to get everyone on those lists either.
In short, we’re f****d.
re: #230 HappyWarrior
And then when Democratic presidents try to fix their fuck ups, they complain about apology tours.
Now, doing an apology tour could be a campaign promise.
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
Same here. As an opposition politician, an atheist, I’m toast.
Since authoritarian regimes also tend to do things like round up the intelligentsia (regardless of education level), I would also not be surprised if they went after high-IQ society rolls to get everyone on those lists either.
In short, we’re f****d.
you seem to be quite the outsider where you live. In another location you would hardly be noticed
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you seem to be quite the outsider where you live. In another location you would hardly be noticed
It’s my long hair and Smart car. /s
I’m sort of an outsider, though everyone around here knows me. Everyone is pleasant to my wife and me.
That said, if someone started whipping up agitprop like Rwanda or something, I really question whether that good will would remain.
re: #232 wrenchwench
Now, doing an apology tour could be a campaign promise.
As you know, I’ve been abroad twice since 2017. I tell everyone who asks that I did not vote for him and I cannot stand him.
re: #234 Anymouse 🌹
It’s my long hair and Smart car. /s
I’m sort of an outsider, though everyone around here knows me. Everyone is pleasant to my wife and me.
That said, if someone started whipping up agitprop like Rwanda or something, I really question whether that good will would remain.
I think that’s what made Rwanda and Yugoslavia so terrifying. Neighbors turned on neighbors.
re: #236 HappyWarrior
I think that’s what made Rwanda and Yugoslavia so terrifying. Neighbors turned on neighbors.
exactly. that is when you do not want to be the Only Liberal in the Village
re: #235 HappyWarrior
As you know, I’ve been abroad twice since 2017. I tell everyone who asks that I did not vote for him and I cannot stand him.
Same here on our trips to Canada, though they’ve been to the most conservative provinces in the country (Saskatchewan and Alberta). Even there we didn’t run into any fanbois of Trump.
re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
exactly. that is when you do not want to be the Only Liberal in the Village
And despite what the right likes to claim, they’re the ones who engage in that. Liberal politicians don’t treat conservatives like “others” who don’t belong in American society but right wing ones sure as hell do to people who are liberal or are some kind of minority whether that be religious, sexual, or ideological.
re: #238 Anymouse 🌹
Same here on our trips to Canada, though they’ve been to the most conservative provinces in the country (Saskatchewan and Alberta). Even there we didn’t run into any fanbois of Trump.
Yeah Poland and Slovakia are pretty conservative but none of the locals I talked to thought much of Trump. I imagine with Poland they definitely do not like that Trump is buddy-buddy with Putin.
re: #240 HappyWarrior
Yeah Poland and Slovakia are pretty conservative but none of the locals I talked to thought much of Trump. I imagine with Poland they definitely do not like that Trump is buddy-buddy with Putin.
We were in Poland in 2015, in Gdansk (about 30 miles from the Russian border). I didn’t get the sense Trump was really popular there.
re: #239 HappyWarrior
And despite what the right likes to claim, they’re the ones who engage in that. Liberal politicians don’t treat conservatives like “others” who don’t belong in American society but right wing ones sure as hell do to people who are liberal or are some kind of minority whether that be religious, sexual, or ideological.
I have a gay Republican friend who insists that he has gotten more harassment for being a Republican than for being gay. I reminded him of all the times that Republicans were blackmailed, threatened, lynched, beaten up or forced into electro-schock conversion therapy
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹
We were in Poland in 2015, in Gdansk (about 30 miles from the Russian border). I didn’t get the sense Trump was really popular there.
Krakow. I don’t think Trump is really popular anywhere in Europe outside The Kremlin .
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have a gay Republican friend who insists that he has gotten more harassment for being a Republican than for being gay. I reminded him of all the times that Republicans were blackmailed, threatened, lynched, beaten up or forced into electro-schock conversion therapy
He’s delusional frankly.
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
I only live 20 minutes from the border and up-to-date passport.
11 hrs. for me if I go North, 14 hrs if I go south.
re: #245 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
11 hrs. for me if I go North, 14 hrs if I go south.
I’m not sure how far it is here to the closest border. It’s closer to the North here though. Texas is a longer drive than New York.
Off to the store to get plumbing supplies. Replacing the kitchen sink faucet. Oh Joy, Joy
re: #224 The Vicious Babushka
I only live 20 minutes from the border and up-to-date passport.
You’re assuming the border won’t be closed by then.
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have a gay Republican friend who insists that he has gotten more harassment for being a Republican than for being gay. I reminded him of all the times that Republicans were blackmailed, threatened, lynched, beaten up or forced into electro-schock conversion therapy
in any event there is no immunity from being ‘harassed’ for your political opinions
For just $45, you can pray for the president with this coin that’s sold by a guy who says God told him you need the coin. https://t.co/MJ8TP4BFof
— Jack Holmes (@jackholmes0) May 15, 2019
re: #250 DangerMan
in any event there is no immunity from being ‘harassed’ for your political opinions
And frankly many Republicans are assholes who are miserable to be around especially when they’re telling you why they’re a Republican.
re: #252 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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Old grifters don’t die, they simply fade away to your TV at 2:00 AM.
re: #252 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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There are millions of brainwashed marks stupid enough to buy that coin.
re: #245 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
11 hrs. for me if I go North, 14 hrs if I go south.
About seven hundred miles for me to get to the nearest crossing (Saskatchewan). Further to Mexico.
Most of the trip to Saskatchewan is on two-lane state highways though.
Perfect example of how some in MSM failed us and allowed this Authoritarian to rise. They have been normalizing so much, giving air to Trump loyalists spewing propaganda and complete lies while failing to warn Americans the danger we are in. Instead they downplay it https://t.co/6jMPmVt3V9
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) May 15, 2019
re: #259 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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It’s almost always people who won’t be directly impacted by awful right wing legislation that do this too. Brian won’t be punished for getting an abortion in another state.
re: #258 Anymouse 🌹
It would take me 10 hours to get to Mexico or 17 to get home to Canada. I may be better off hijacking a boat and hightailing it through the Gulf of Mexico to Cuba.
re: #259 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
Tell that to the 11 year girl in Ohio being forced to carry her rapist’s child!
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) May 15, 2019
I brought all the ham and cheese to work to make a sandwich because I was in a hurry. I’m eating all the cheese instead. :D
re: #260 HappyWarrior
It’s almost always people who won’t be directly impacted by awful right wing legislation that do this too. Brian won’t be punished for getting an abortion in another state.
He should stop whining about Trump’s attacks on the press. It’s no big deal.
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re: #23 Chrysicat
From the bottom of the last thread:
Except that very few historians see Maine as a true false-flag op. It was 85% likely to have been negligence (in the design more than in the way the ship was being treated), and 14% possible to be the Spanish actually attacking her. US Navy sabotage is highly unlikely.
In the Straits, there was no question that someone attacked, and it’s over 95% likely to be someone theoretically-allied to the countries whose flags those ships fly rather than Iran.
Coal bunker explosion.
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
There are millions of brainwashed marks stupid enough to buy that coin.
they just bought that gofundme / wall builder guy a yacht
re: #264 Amory Blaine
I brought all the ham and cheese to work to make a sandwich because I was in a hurry. I’m eating all the cheese instead. :D
before you leave home, you should always know what you’re gonna wanna eat hours later so you dont waste money buying frivolous, optional, wasteful lunches //
Someone please tell me this is a hoax:
Meanwhile, also in Alabama…. How about more science and education to prevent unwanted pregnancies, and less punishing women because we are miraculous and create life. #AlabamaAbortionBan pic.twitter.com/x0paVgnUTB
— Amanda Toye (@RedToye) May 15, 2019
It *has* to be a hoax. Even for Alabama, this is so wrongheadedly stupid…
re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg
You’re assuming the border won’t be closed by then.
I have friends with boats, and I am about an hour south of Lake Erie.
re: #100 HappyWarrior
President Tyler who was President in the early 1840’s has living grandsons. That’s crazy.
My birthdate, June 21 1949, is closer in time to the inauguration of James A. Garfield than to the present day.
Another one, I have been a licensed pilot for 53 years. When I was born, nobody had been a pilot that long because the first airplane flight had only been 46 years earlier.
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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